Three Songs from the Great Yiddish Songbook: “Bei mir bist du shoen” Sung by the Barry Sisters; “Rumania Rumania” Sung by Tosca; and “Lekhayim” from the 2018 Yiddish Fiddler On the Roof

I have a heavyweight posting coming so here’re some nice tunes to tide all of you over:

“Bei mir bist du shoen”
by Jacob Jacobs and Sholom Secunda (1932)
sung by the Barry Sisters

“Rumania Rumania”
by Aaron Lebedeff (1925)
sung by Tosca Donati

“Lekhayim”
from Fiddler On the Roof (Grey dir, 2018)
Entirely in Yiddish
by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (English, 1964)
translation by Shraga Friedman
Complete cast album here.

Boris and Bessie Thomashevsky, because the guy refuses to leave.

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